At the Bensonhurst, Brooklyn Bally's I swim at the water is always cloudy. They did pool maintenance last month and emptied the pool. Right off the bat the refill was cloudy and has remained so. I mentioned it to the lifeguard and he assured me in broken English that it was very clean, despite the inability to see the bottom at the six foot end.
It was cloudy before the refill if I remember correctly too. I see the guards testing the water now and then with a test tube and some kit of something, for whatever that's worth.
What could be going on here?
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I don't want to mention any names, but an outdoor pool I swim at sometimes has varying levels of water clarity. You can tell when they zap it with chemicals and it clears up for a while.
There's enough algal growth (or accumulated crud, I'm not sure which, I'm not a biologist) on the bottom that people have written notes to each other in it. One kid wrote some words of encouragement to her dad who did the postal swim in the pool.
I had some minor ear infection late last summer (not serious enough for an ARNP to prescribe meds) that cleared up fairly quickly when I switched to an indoor pool, which seems very well maintained and more heavily chlorinated in comparison.
I like swimming outdoors but from my small sample it seems like maintenance requirements may be higher for outdoor pools, and there may be a tendency not to meet those higher requirements in some cases.
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I don't want to mention any names, but an outdoor pool I swim at sometimes has varying levels of water clarity. You can tell when they zap it with chemicals and it clears up for a while.
There's enough algal growth (or accumulated crud, I'm not sure which, I'm not a biologist) on the bottom that people have written notes to each other in it. One kid wrote some words of encouragement to her dad who did the postal swim in the pool.
I had some minor ear infection late last summer (not serious enough for an ARNP to prescribe meds) that cleared up fairly quickly when I switched to an indoor pool, which seems very well maintained and more heavily chlorinated in comparison.
I like swimming outdoors but from my small sample it seems like maintenance requirements may be higher for outdoor pools, and there may be a tendency not to meet those higher requirements in some cases.
